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Hosting your own DNS server
We've recently moved to a dedicated hosting solution for four websites that we run. All four sites are being hosted on our own Win2k Advanced Server box sitting on a broadband connection at a secure site. I have IIS running on the machine and the websites are operating correctly. I set up DNS for the four domains (each has their own IP) and it seems to be running correctly. If I change my personal machine's DNS server to the IP of the new machine and try nslookup's they resolve correctly to the new IP's.
My question now is how do I get this new machine to be the authoritative server for the domains? I tried logging in to the respective control panels on networksolutions.com and register.com (where the domain names were registered) but when I try to change the DNS server to the new machine they both give me an error saying "You have not specified the name of a valid Domain Name Server." I tried giving it both the IP address and a DNS name that points to the machine.
My question now is how do I get this new machine to be the authoritative server for the domains? I tried logging in to the respective control panels on networksolutions.com and register.com (where the domain names were registered) but when I try to change the DNS server to the new machine they both give me an error saying "You have not specified the name of a valid Domain Name Server." I tried giving it both the IP address and a DNS name that points to the machine.
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Do you already have the domain set up?
I just tried this and it worked fine. I put in the ns3.domain.com and it then asked for the IP address. Where is your domain registered? Netsol or register.com
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I *think* I got it now, waiting for the name server I created to be recognized. Thanks a lot for your help, will aaccept your comment as an answer.
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Any ideas?